[Pidgin] #975: XMPP login box is a focus thief

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#975: XMPP login box is a focus thief
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  Reporter:  ArunRaghavan  |       Owner:  deryni             
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  new                
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:  2.4.1              
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0                
Resolution:                |    Keywords:  focus, login window
   Pending:  0             |  
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Changes (by deryni):

  * owner:  rlaager => deryni
  * status:  reopened => new

Comment:

 There are a number of places in pidgin where we call gtk_window_present
 what that GTK+ function does depends on a number of things, not least of
 which are the NETWM/EWMH features your window manager claims to support,
 so it is entirely possible that either sawfish doesn't support the hint
 _present wants to use and so it falls back to attempting to steal focus or
 that it does support the hint and interprets the hint and gives pidgin
 focus. Either way there isn't much pidgin can do about it because that
 really is often the correct function to call. We used to call it much too
 often, we may still do so, but that is often hard to figure out. If you
 want to test my theory about gtk_window_present write a simple GTK+
 application which creates a single window, sleeps, and then calls
 gtk_window_present on it, see what happens.

 When I am home again and have access to a small test program I wrote I
 will attach it here, it simply sends the EWMH hint that gtk_window_present
 should be sending and as such should test whether this is sawfish giving
 focus or GTK+ taking it.

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